A Neighbours’ Event: Building Community Through Socially-Engaged Photography An exhibition of work by Anita Strasser Dates : 1st November 2017 – 31st January 2018 Location : Conway Hall, 25, Red Lion Square, London, WC1R 4RL Gallery opening hours, Mon-Sun, 9am – 10pm (some work is in the library which is only open on Tuesday – Thursday … More A Neighbour’s Event by Anita Strasser
‘For me, this image captures the old and the new of Toulouse. The old city built in the pink brick that gives it the name ‘La Ville Rose’, and the condensation trails of aircraft a symbol of Toulouse’s position at the centre of Europe’s aerospace industry. And it is the latter that is responsible for … More Postcard from the Field by Michaela Benson
Review of Factories for Learning: Making Race, Class and Inequality in the Neoliberal Academy, Manchester University Press, 2017 by Christy Kulz “You can’t talk about schools without talking about cities,” James Baldwin once commented, “and the cities are in the hands of the financiers, the cities are in the hands of pirates, thugs and our children … More The Cruel Dream of Dreamfields Academy by Les Back
In the early hours of Sunday 18 January 1981 a fire broke out on 439 New Cross Road, killing 13 young black Londoners as they were celebrating Yvonne Ruddock’s – one of the victims – birthday. One survivor died nearly two years later, bringing the official death count to 14. Concerns about racism had … More Colours of Memory
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